Two new episodes of Simon’s Cat

I have a stack of stuff that I could write about today, but for once I don’t feel like writing about anything. It’s a big mess out there, there’s precious little any of us can do to fix things, or so I think, and it’s dispiriting. Politicians are making big noises about how we will not stand for terrorism, but offer no solutions. And everybody is using this episode to promote their favorite ideas, and I sometimes feel I’m among them. That all pales in the face of the 50 young people whose lives will never be fulfilled.

The wife had her first puncture in the car – while I’m at the other end of the country.
And I’ve told her for 3 years since she passed her driving test that “You need to learn how to change a wheel. It’s easy ; I’m lazy ; the tools in the boot which won’t require any more than one hand.”
Nearly £50 for a mobile mechanic to change the wheel for her. Probably another £50 to get the tyre repaired or replaced. [SIGH]

In the States, there’s a wonderful company, AAA, that provides a roadside assistance service. They’ll change tires, give you gas to make it to the next station, charge your battery, and tow you when it’s more serious. Their fees are most reasonable…

Just last week I was driving my parents’s 1955 VW Beetle in the middle of the afternoon when it was well over 100Â°F…when the engine cut out due to vapor lock.

It’s typically no big deal…you just wait for everything to cool down and the car starts right up again, maybe with a bit more cranking than usual. But you have to wait for it to cool or else it’s not starting, no way no how.

Problem was…it happened going up a small hill on a major thoroughfare shortly before a freeway onramp, and with a concrete barrier preventing you from getting out of the travel lanes.

So…a call to AAA, a slightly nerve-wracking short period of time waving idiots around the car stopped in the road, a short tow home, and the car fires right up after we unload it from the truck.

I often feel the same way because the politicians are really good at creating problems but rarely solve any. Terrorism and mentally defective people have been around for a long time. The one thing we could do to greatly reduce the killing is to eliminate the guns that allow people of all orders to do it. Just forget about the idiots who don’t know how to interpret history or amendments and get rid of the guns. That would be all assault type rifles and all hand guns. No ownership and no sales. This is the only realistic answer.

If you were a terrorist in 1787 in Philadelphia and you wanted to do some mass killing, would you manage that with a gun available at the time?

What perplexes me is why everyone goes into overdrive appeasing and whitewashing the doctrinal violence that comprises all of Islam, as if all thes non muslims understand Islam better than anyone else. Why the denial?